Meet recent marketing graduate and former Kent State University Student Body President, Juliana Buonaiuto. Originally from Long Island, New York, Buonaiuto came to Kent State to study marketing because of her love for the industry.  “I love the business world, but I have a very creative side that marketing allows me to explore,” Buonaiuto said.   Before being student body president for the Undergraduate Student Government, she was the director of communication and marketing and the senator for the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship. She was also involve...

LaKaleb Bowen, ’24, is a criminology and justice studies major who admits to becoming captivated by Kent State’s education-abroad programs, noting that his most recent trip to Kigali, Rwanda, was an extraordinary experience focused on peace and conflict in the country.Bowen has also completed education-abroad programs in Mexico studying cultural foundations and Colombia studying how the peace process was working in a country that had been ravaged by civil war.The Kigali Summer Institute course was developed and taught by Sarah Schmidt, Ph.D., an instructor in the School of Peace and Conflict S...

 Our school’s interdisciplinary faculty bring research, professional and global leadership into our classes, teaching technology that sits at the heart of community and industry innovation.For example, Professor Thor Wasbotten, who holds an appointment in Kent State’s School of Media and Journalism, led a seminar on artificial intelligence (AI) with EMAT students this spring. The class focused on how to ethically deploy AI technologies across sectors through case studies that interrogate bias and privacy.EMAT Lecturer Adam Stephens brought his over two decades of experience as a technolog...

On May 3rd, students in Dr. Kelsen LaBerge’s Introduction to Engineering course demonstrated their final capstone projects. The 87 students in the course were divided into 18 teams to design, build, and fly a hovercraft that adheres to a specified budget.Students worked in teams to come up with a preliminary design before giving a presentation of their work. Following approval, teams began building their hovercraft using balsa wood, propellers, and electronics such as servos, motors, and electronic speed controllers. After successfully constructing their hovercraft, teams were then tasked...